Roman, Zeit der Soldatenkaiser Larger than life-sized urban Roman portrait of a prince, from a statue – presumably Emporer Gordian III (225?–?244 AD) Circa 243 AD Bronze cast Neck cut smooth, pieces missing from the top and bottom of the head, losses to the face (tip of the nose) reconstructed With a material/technical report from the Rathgen Research Laboratory of the Staatlichen Museen zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz, Prof. Dr. Riederer, dated 29 June 1990 (in copy) Circa 1960 art trade Mathias Komor (1904?– 1984), New York / 1960s acquired there with the advice of Norbert Schimmel (1904?–?1990) for the collection Hans Cohn (1903?–?1993), Los Angeles / 1974?–?1989 on loan to J. Paul Getty Museum, Malibu, California (inv. no. L73) / private collection, Germany 32 cm 12 5/8 in. Larger than life-sized urban Roman portrait of a prince, from a statue – presumably Emporer Gordian III (225?–?244 AD) Um 243 n. Chr Bronzeguß Jörgen Bracker: Gordianus III.; in: Max Wegner: Gordianus III. bis Carinus, Berlin 1979, p. 13?-?29, p. 24 32 cm 12 5/8 in.